News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2008
SOUTH AFRICA: The Invisible People
- Inter Press Service
Since psychiatric care was decentralised last year in South Africa, patients have been moved from hospitals into community day hospitals that don't have the appropriate resources to deal with mental illnesses. As a result, many of society's most vulnerable have slipped through the cracks in the system and now walk the streets like invisible people.
OP-ED: Misunderstanding Bahrain's Shia Protesters
- Inter Press Service
Listening to the rhetoric coming out of Tehran, one might assume that Bahrain's Shia opposition is relying on help from its co-religionists next door. But, in fact, the opposite is true: the Shia opposition wants nothing more than for Tehran to stay out of the sectarian dispute unfolding in the tiny kingdom.
BRAZIL: Science and Sugar Cane Produce Versatile Harvest
- Inter Press Service
For nearly five hundred years, sugar cane was used almost exclusively for making sugar, with a handful of by-products like rum, alcohol and molasses. Now, in Brazil, it has become a source of multiple derivatives, and the focus of much scientific and technological research.
Agencies Grappling With Liberia Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
The yard at Peter Saye's is full: of kids, of cooking pots, of chickens, goats, and piles of belongings. Women carry firewood and stir coals, plait hair and snap at the children scampering around in the dust. There are nearly 100 refugees sheltering here from the violence across the border in Côte d'Ivoire.
/UPDATE*/Violence Threatens Nigerian Elections: Violence Threatens Nigerian Elections
- Inter Press Service
Nigeria's staggered general elections have been postponed after the Independent National Electoral Commission was unable to deliver voting materials to polling stations in time. Campaigning for the polls was overshadowed by pre-election violence including bombings and gun attacks on campaign rallies, politically-motivated assassinations and violent clashes between members of rival parties.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Assessing the True Value of Water
- Inter Press Service
As water resources in Southern Africa come under pressure from growing population, climate change and increasing industrial and agricultural use, economic accounting for water is among the tools that could aid better management.
Sierra Leone Facing Facts of Teenage Pregnancy
- Inter Press Service
On Apr. 5, the United Nations Children's Fund will launch a report on teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone. Teenage pregnancies account for 40 percent of maternal deaths in the country, and the report comes as public health authorities recalibrate strategy to address a problem that endangers both mothers and children.
Libya Poses Immigration Challenge To Italy
- Inter Press Service
The influx of migrants arriving from Libya and other African countries has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in southern Italy.
UGANDA: Sun Smiling on Renewable Energy Initiative
- Inter Press Service
Clementine Auma was still living in a displaced person's camp in Gulu district when she acquired the treasure she's gone into the house to fetch. She re-emerges from her home with a white box in her arms: a solar oven.
Violence Threatens Nigerian Elections
- Inter Press Service
As Nigerians go to the polls on Apr. 2, pre-election violence has raised fears the elections will not be free and fair. The campaign period has featured bombings and gun attacks on campaign raliies, politically-motivated assassinations and violent clashes between members of rival parties.
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